Assessing Student Learning
in the School Library Media Center
October 13-15, 2006 
Warwick, Rhode Island
in the School Library Media Center
October 13-15, 2006
| Friday, October 13 | |
| 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Arrival and Registration / Dessert Reception |
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Saturday, October 14 |
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| 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | General Session: "What is Assessment and Why Should the SLMS Be Involved?" (Violet Harada) |
| 11:00 a.m. - noon | Session I: "Assessing Information Fluency" (Barbara Stripling) |
| 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Breakout Session I: "What Does Assessment Look Like in the SLMC?" |
| 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Lunch* |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Breakout Session II: "Item Analysis: What are the Skills Needed to Answer Standardized Assessment Questions and What is the Connection to the SLMP?" |
| 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Session II: "Assessment Tools" (Marjorie Pappas) |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Networking Reception |
| Sunday, October 15 | |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Session III: "Who Gives You the Authority to Do What You are Doing?" (Allison Zmuda) |
| 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Roundtable discussions by levels |
| 11:30 a.m. - noon | Wrap-up, Reflection and Evaluation |
*Saturday, October 14 - LUNCH
Test anxiety is one of the effects of the national concern with assessment and accountability. During lunch, committee members will share current literature that may serve as bibliotherapy for students, teachers and administrators facing the dreaded word: test. Table top discussions focusing on how to allay all this anxiety will follow. Luncheon participants will receive a fictional bibliotherapy list and
ideas to implement in their school to calm test anxiety.
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The AASL Fall Forum is a multi-day national institute held during non-AASL National Conference years.